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Tocharian B
Etymology
Unknown; possibly borrowed alongside Tocharian A āmāṃ from Iranian, compare Ossetian амунд (amund, “to admonish”), Sogdian 𐼍𐼎𐼋 (mnk /mank/, “fraud, deceit”), (sqʾmʾnqyʾ /skāmānkyā/, “arrogance”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”).[1]
Noun
amāṃ ?
- pride
- arrogance
References
- ^ Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “āmāṃ”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 19